KEY IDEA
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23 Political Revolutions
IN THIS CHAPTER
Summary:In the period between 1750 and 1900, the Industrial Revolution
was joined by political revolutions. Enlightenment philosophies that soci-
ety could improve through education and reason led to revolution in the
British North American colonies, France, and Haiti in the latter part of the
eighteenth century and early nineteenth century. Additional Latin American
independence movements fl ourished in the early nineteenth century. In
China, the Qing dynasty faced local revolts as it gradually declined.
Key Terms
Bill of Rights feminism*
bourgeoisie* Gran Colombia*
Boxer Rebellion* Jacobins*
Code Napoleon* Jamaica Letter
communism* liberalism*
Congress of Vienna maroon societies*
conscription* natural rights*
conservatism* proletariat*
Declaration of Independence queu
Declaration of the Rights of Man radicalism*
and of the Citizen* Reign of Terror*
Declaration of the Rights of Revolutions of 1848*
Woman and of the Female* self-strengthening movement*
estates* separation of powers*
Estates-General*
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